Sri Lanka: Bans on burqas, cremations and Islamic schools spark fear
By Tanika Godbole, New Delhi Sri Lanka has proposed a series of policies that rights activists say target the country’s Muslim minorities and further marginalizes them. In its latest move, the island nation is looking to ban 1,000 madrasas. Amena...
March 24, 2021
UNHRC passes rights resolution on Sri Lanka; China, Pakistan, Russia oppose, India, Nepal abstain
By SAT News Desk MELBOURNE, 23 March 2021: In a landmark resolution the 47-member United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)...
January 12, 2021
Family of slain Sri Lankan journalist in search for justice
Photo-CJA Twelve years after Lasantha Wickrematunge was brutally killed in broad daylight in Colombo by unidentified gunmen allegedly associated with...
June 19, 2020
Sri Lankan authorities seize reporter Dharisha Bastians’ laptop in home raid
Photo- Sri Lanka Breaking News New York, June 18, 2020 – Sri Lankan authorities should immediately return journalist Dharisha Bastians’...
February 16, 2017
Joint statement by the PM’s of Australia & Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka PM at the Melbourne Airport. Statement issued on February 15, 2017 Hon. Ranil Wickremesinghe, Prime Minister of the...
